Sunday, April 26, 2015

Cyclones @ OKC Memorial Marathon


Safety net Volunteers with inspirational kids runner




Cyclones @ the Art Festival

Casady, as in previous years, had two day chairs at the Arts Festival.  Casady students volunteered at the Children Activity Field and the Face Painting Venues










Food for thought

Saturday, April 25, 2015

FEDEX TIME AND LABYRINTH EXPERIENCES


FEDEX TIME / STRATEGIC PLANNING EXPERIENCE

What:? FEDEX Time, Strategic planning time for 2015-2016

DANIEL PINK'S FEDEX TIME  How to deliver innovation overnight (or few hours)

STRATEGIC PLANNING:  It is a formal road map  that spells out where an organization is going over a period of time and how it’s going to get there

Why? Create a road map with a calendar with a plan to how to get there

Where? Casady MD Community room, McClendon Building Campus Map http://www.casady.org/document.doc?id=115

When? Saturday, May 2, 2015, 1:30-4:30

Who? Casady YAC and any interested club, STUCO, youth group or board.  Facilitated by Casady's Development Director Evan Walter

How Much?  No cost, just bring a snack or drink to share with the participants.  Casady Service Learning Program will provide cups, plates and napkins.

Contact Carmen Clay @ clayc@casady.org , 405-520-1325 if interested


Labyrinth Experience @ UCO Outdoor Labyrinth


What: Why a labyrinth at UCO from its creator and  professor of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Daine Rudebock.  Labyrinth Walk and Reflection guided by Cannon Susan Joplin, certified labyrinth facilitator

Why? Reflection of 2014-2015, Casady YAC, YLOKC Senior Send off

Where? Gather at the UCO Labyrinth next to the UCO Chapel
Parking:  Since it is a Sunday afternoon, plenty of on street parking should be available on University by the Ratcliff’s book store as well as on the south side of the HPE building.  To access the parking lot,
N on Broadway Extension
Rt (east) on 2nd Street
Left (north) on University
Right on Main st (At the stop light and by the Baptist Student Center)
Take the sidewalk north of the parking lot between the HPE building and Wantland Hall and you will see the labyrinth.

When? Sunday May 3, 1:30-3:30

Who? Casady YAC, YLOKC, interested Casady Seniors and any interested youth and adult from Casady or the OKC community.  Facilitated by Cannon Susan Joplin

How Much?  No cost

How?
1. Gather at the labyrinth.  Greeter: Ms. Diane Rudebock
2. Orientation talk in the chapel adjacent to the labyrinth by Cannon Susan Joplin
3. Labyrinth Walk
4. Reflection time after the labyrinth Walk.  Reflection can take place at the labyrinth or chapel for a more private reflection

Contact Carmen Clay @clayc@casady.org, 405-520-1325.  Walk ins welcomed! 
Check the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt8SIoCxuI4


FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 

Today I learned that the Japanese believe that when something has been damaged and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.  That is why they repair the objects filling the damaged parts with gold or silver (Kintsukuroi).  Instead of trying to high the defects and cracks, they highlight and celebrate them.  They have become a testament of imperfection and fragility, but also of resilience; the capacity to recuperate and become stronger.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Final Days of Earth Week

Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 008 - April 25, 2015

Good Morning Agents!


You now know that you are part of nature's conspiracy to take care of itself. Each of us has ongoing secret missions that we are to complete each day to do our part to keep nature in balance. Our job is to tune in to these missions and decode their related messages, the decoding being made manifest through our compassionate actions.

For today, the last in this special week of green compassion, we are asking you to return to the paper you completed in the first four days of the week and to the penny you used to download your positive experiences the last three days.

Regarding the paper, study the circles and draw lines of connection to those that have a clear relationship for you.Connect as many circles as you wish. Make sure to connect them all back to you at the center. What you have here is a map of how you and nature relate to each other on different levels of your experience. Such a map can show you how you receive sustenance and blessing from nature, how nature enriches your life. It can also suggest where and how you can return the favor.

What can you do to help nature be a blessing to others as well, to benefit their "conspiracy"?

Next, pick up your penny and go out into nature where you can find some soil. Dig a small hole and put the penny into it. As you do, remember that you were able to enjoy all these pleasant moments because nature gives you life and nourishes you. So now you are saying thank you. By burying your penny, you are symbolically sharing your happy memories with nature and taking a moment to be grateful and aware of the earth that sustains you.

We hope you have been sharing your experiences on Twitter with these missions using the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And if you have yet to do so, please use this link to share a photo of a place on the planet you love and why you love it.

Thank you, agents!

PS - If you have enjoyed these missions, please visit Kind Living, the organization that provided them for you this week.


 Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 007 - April 24, 2015

Good Morning Agents!

In the fantasy world of super spies and secret agents, James Bond reigns supreme, the original 007.  But secret agents of green compassion have their own 00 number as well, but it's not a license to kill. It's a license to experience wonder.


Today your mission is to go out into nature and see something that fills you with wonder.  As you do, you can say, "Oh...Oh!" That's your Double O, the Double O of wonderment at the beauty, the intricacy, the miracle of life around you.

It may be that what you see is something that in the past you've overlooked because it's so familiar or "ordinary." But nothing in nature is ordinary. Everything is unique. So in this mission, you now have a license to look beyond your ordinary way of seeing and naming things and experience wonder as you look more closely, look more deeply, and appreciate more heartfully the living world around you.

The truly wonderful thing is, your Double O license can never be revoked! It's always there for you to use to experience the wonder around you. Today, please let your Double O Wonder license inspire you to perform a compassionate act for something in the natural world that gives you this opportunity for wonderment.

Throughout this week, we encourage you to share your experiences on Twitterwith the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

The earth has music for those who listen. George Santayana

Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 006 - April 23, 2015

Good Morning Agents!

Today's mission begins by getting a penny (any penny will do) and putting it in a special place in your pocket where you can get to it easily.


As you go through your day, whenever you have a pleasant moment, for whatever reason, maybe someone said something positive or encouraging to you, maybe you had a special memory that came over you, maybe you saw something beautiful in the world around you, maybe you accomplished something that made you feel proud and good, or you tasted something delicious, take out your penny and hold it in your hand.

Say to the penny, "Remember this moment!" and as you hold the penny, appreciate the pleasure or joy, the happiness or positive emotion or thought you just experienced, no matter how trivial or minor it might seem in the grand scheme of things. In effect, you are "downloading" and sharing the joy of the moment with the penny as if it were a memory drive in your computer.

Tonight as you go to bed, take out your penny and let it "upload" the memories you connected to it into your mind. That is, let it remind you. Think back to each positive moment and let it live briefly in your thoughts.

Beginning today, do this for each of the last three days of "Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week." At first you may forget, but when you feel the penny in your pocket, you'll remember. In time, it will become a habit. This will be your "joyous penny."

Stay tuned for a specific instructions on how you will be sharing your happy memories with nature later this week. And as you know, we are encouraging you to share your experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 005 - April 22, 2015

Good Morning Agents!

We begin today by asking you to pose a question to yourself: "Can I see and appreciate the fullness of the life around me and all the forms it takes?"

To be an effective secret agent, you have to be good at finding and decoding secret messages. The question above is a secret message. Your genuine and thoughtful answer is how the message is decoded. It will also serve as your guide to today's mission.

To begin the decoding process, take a walk in a familiar outdoor place. Ideally, where you walk should be a place you see everyday, a place to which you are accustomed. For example, you could take a walk around your neighborhood. This time, however, make an effort to see what you have not seen before. Look beyond the familiar. In doing so, you need to decode some additional messages:
    - What is happening in the nature around you?
    - What can you see in your own yard, for instance, that you normally overlook?
    - What plants and animals are there?
    - What is happening?

We assume we are seeing things because we can name them with familiar names. "Oh, that's my tree, that's my bush, that's my lawn." But these names can make us unconscious of what is happening around us. What, for instance, are the leaves on that tree like? What are they doing for the tree?  How is the bush shaped? What kind of flowers are growing in my yard, not by name but by how they look, their colors, their aroma, and so on? What insects are attracted?

While decoding these more specific secret messages, allow an action of green compassion to emerge and then complete it. In doing so, you will have successfully decoded the message and completed today's mission.

Remember, we are encouraging you to share your experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Good luck, agents.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

HAPPY EARTH WEEK


2015 Earth Day Walk @ OCU facilitated by the Oklahoma City Peace House


The OKC Peace House had an Earth Day Walk at UCO at 6:00 PM @ OCU.  More information www.earthday.org.

ON EARTH WEEK 

Play the Love this Place Save the Earth Games

Be a Secret Agent of Green Compassion

Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 004 - April 21, 2015

Good Morning Agents!


Through your work this week, you are increasing your understanding of the interrelatedness of nature. As an example, consider how, in the process of gathering nectar from a flower, a bee pollinates the flower. So much does the flower need the bee and the bee need the flower, one could think of them as a single species. We've been referring to this interrelatedness as a conspiracy, and are being guided this week in better understanding it by David Spangler. 

Retrieve the paper you've been working with each day this week and get ready to populate the fourth quadrant, "Spirit."

  Day Four : Spirit
In this quadrant, each circle represents a way in which something in nature inspires you, makes you feel connected to a larger whole, plugs you in to the larger community of life, and so on.  These circles show how nature takes you beyond your body, beyond your emotions, beyond your thinking into a deeper place, a place of connection and wholeness.

As you've been doing each day, choose one of these circles and conceptualize a way for you to complete a compassionate act in acknowledgement of it. As an example, if you are inspired by the strawberries your garden produces, choose an action for today that supports gardening.

Throughout this week, we encourage you to share your experiences on Twitterwith the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Good luck, agents.


Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 003 - April 20, 2015

Good Morning Agents!

You are doing great work this week, better understanding our conspiracy with nature and performing actions that nurture it in positive ways. Our guide this week,David Spangler, is helping us with this work through a specific exercise.

Having placed ourselves in a circle in the center of a piece of paper and divided the paper into four quadrants, we have come to better understand our conspiracy with nature from the perspectives of "Body" and "Mind." Today we move on to the third quadrant, "Heart."

  Day Three : Heart
In this quadrant, draw circles that represent specific emotional experiences you have with nature.  For instance, what do you feel when you see a clear lake sparkling in sunl
ight (or in moonlight!)?  What do you feel when you see a snow-capped mountain? A flower? A bird? What feelings does nature draw forth from you, and what in nature draws forth what kinds of feelings? Note, they don't all have to be positive. The disgust you may feel when seeing the ravages of pollution is one way you may conspire or breathe with the nature world.

As before, choose one of these circles and conceptualize a way for you to complete a compassionate act in acknowledgement of it. For instance, if one of your circles is the "peacefulness" you feel when sitting by a body of water, what action can you take to better ensure others can have this same experience in the future?

Throughout this week, we encourage you to share your experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Good luck, agents.

Good Morning Agents!

As introduced yesterday, we are part of a conspiracy with nature, literally breathing together with every living thing on earth. David Spangler, free-lance mystic and a member of the International Kindness Team braintrust, has designed an exercise for us to better understand this conspiracy.

Yesterday, we divided a sheet of paper into four quadrants, having placed ourselves in a circle in the center. We populated the "Body" quadrant, and completed an act of compassion inspired by this exercise. It's time to move on to the next quadrant.

  Day Two : Mind
In this quadrant, you are going to draw circles, too, but here each circle represents an idea or an image you have about nature. When someone mentions "nature" to you, what springs to mind? What memories do you have of places or events in nature you've experienced? 
What attitudes do you have about nature, particularly as you relate to it or it relates to you? How does your mind conspire with the natural world? These circles represent specific mental experiences you have with nature.

As you did yesterday, choose one of these circles and conceptualize a way for you to complete a compassionate act in acknowledgement of it. As an example, if one of your circles is specific to a place in nature that is important to you, perhaps you can visit that place, or one like it, and beautify it in some way.

Throughout this week, we are encouraging you to share your experiences onTwitter with the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Good luck, agents.

           Secret Agent of Green Compassion
                Mission 001 - April 18, 2015



Good Morning Agents!

As secret agents of green compassion, we are part of a conspiracy with nature. Conspiracy comes from the Latin meaning "to breathe together," which is literally what we do with nature.


We take in her substance in various ways and she takes in ours in reciprocity. We conspire together to express life on earth.

But just what is this conspiracy to which we belong? And how are we conspiring?

To help us answer these questions, David Spangler, free-lance mystic and a member of the International Kindness Team braintrust, has designed an exercise for us to complete over the next four days.

Take a sheet of paper and draw a small circle in the center, just big enough to write your name inside. This is you. Next, draw a vertical line up and down from this circle, and a horizontal line right and left from it, dividing the paper into four parts. Label these four parts Body, Mind, Heart, Spirit. Over the next four days, you are going to draw more circles in each of these quadrants, and by the end of the week have lines connecting these circles with each other and with the central circle that is you.

  Day One : Body
In this quadrant, draw a circle for each of the ways you feel connected to and part of nature through your body. In other words, create circles for all the ways you can think of that your body "conspires" or "breathes together" with nature. These circles represent specific physical experiences. For instance, one circle might be "Breath" for the air you breathe. One might be "Water." Another might be "Food." "Sensations" might be another circle, but you might want to be more specific. The "feel" of a tree, the touch of grass under your feet, the caress of a breeze, and so on are more precise.

Choose one of these circles and conceptualize a way for you to complete a compassionate act in acknowledgement of it. As an example, if one of your circles is "Breath," you could plant a tree today, knowing that trees help clean the air.

Throughout this week, we are encouraging you to share your experiences onTwitter with the hashtag #LoveThisPlace2015. And, please, in celebration of our conspiracy of positively expressing life on earth, use this link to share a photo of a place you love and why you love it.

Good luck, agents.

Monday, April 20, 2015

President Volunteer Service Awards 2015





Hours by AwardBronzeSilverGold
Kids (5-10)
26 – 49
50 – 74
75 +
Teens (11–15)
50 – 74
75 – 99
100 +
Young Adults (16-25)
100 – 174
175 – 249
250 +
Adults (26 and older)
100 – 249
250 – 499
500+
Families and Groups*
200 – 499
500 – 999
1,000+
President’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Individuals who have completed 4,000 or more hours in their lifetime
* Two or more people, with each member contributing at least 25 hours toward the total



The Service-Learning Office ordered awards the week of March 9, 2015. Volunteers  created a file at the award website and linked it to Casady as Certifying Organization using the record of service key: SCW-0931.  Awards are ordered directly from the Casady link in the PVSA website.







Mr. Gene Rainbolt, Inspirational Speaker 4/21/15

"Mr. Rainbolt spoke in a calm and direct manner that magnified the weight and challenge that we consider carefully how we live our daily lives in terms of our interaction and impact on other lives. "  Stephanie Crossno, UD English Teacher 









About Mr. Rainbolt's life and his focus on helping children through education


H.E. "Gene" Rainbolt spent a lifetime building banks in Oklahoma, until the day he stepped away and focused his energy on helping children.
Rainbolt devotes himself and his philanthropy to many activities, but his greatest interest is in children, said his friend, Judge Robert Henry, OCU President.
Perhaps Rainbolt helps now because adults helped him as a child during the Depression.
Perhaps he helps because the faces of orphans he saw during the Korean War haunt him still.
Perhaps it is all of this and more.
"Gene turned his incredible mind and heart to bettering the soul of Oklahoma on more than a 40-hour a week basis," Henry said in paying tribute last month to Rainbolt when he received the Jasmine Award for his support of children's causes and the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum in Seminole.
Rainbolt, 74, is chairman of the board of BancFirst, which has 41 banks in Oklahoma.
He still goes to work at the BancFirst office in downtown Oklahoma City every day, but says that except for participating in some of the management committees, "I am not a factor in our operation."
Banking on the future Rainbolt has a track record of success in banking, working first at a bank in Noble as a young man, then in Purcell, later running Federal National Bank in Shawnee for more than 20 years before becoming chairman of BancFirst, now run by his son, David.
Judge Henry is not the only person who says Rainbolt's passion is helping children.
Nance Diamond, president of the Oklahoma Arts Institute, said that some years ago she and another supporter of the institute approached Rainbolt, a longtime family friend, about serving on the board.
"He very clearly explained that the only boards he was joining were those that served children," Nance said.
Rainbolt agreed to serve on the board of the institute, which provides a summer arts academy for students 14 to 18 years old, and workshops for teachers and educators.
"The focus really is on expanding the creative talent of young people," Diamond said. "I think Gene Rainbolt is about creating change, and what he wants to see happen is creating more opportunity for young people in Oklahoma."
Rainbolt attributes his interest in children to his own experiences in life.
"We change society by directing our attentions to children and the environment in which they develop, and thus, I decided I wanted to devote my energies to things that impacted children," he said.
He and his family have endowed a chair in child psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
He's involved in Calm Waters, which provides support groups for children who have suffered from the death of a sibling, parent or grandparents, or who are in a family where there is a divorce.
'It takes a village ... ' Rainbolt was born in and grew up in Norman.
His father, a salesman for a wholesale grocery, moved the family there so the children could go to the University of Oklahoma.
From his earliest memories, he had some kind of a job.
"Every day of my life, including now, I had people who wanted to help me succeed and were willing to help me, which accounts for my use of the sometimes maligned term, 'that it takes a village to raise a child.' I really understand that based on my personal experience," Rainbolt said.
Besides his parents, others who influenced him were teachers and Norman business people and Jim Murphy, who was chairman of the finance department at OU when Rainbolt was in college.
He studied economics at OU because it interested him, he said.
After graduation, Rainbolt was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army artillery and went to Korea, where he was on an artillery battalion staff, serving as the adjutant and battalion S-2, intelligence officer.

Information from Google Search



YAC led awards ceremony and reception


Good afternoon.  My name is Aubrey Hermen.  I‘m the YAC Vice-President. YAC is the Casady Service Club and it stands for Youth Acting in the Community.  YAC’s mission is to help others find their passion to serve.

Good afternoon.  My name is Dylan Dobson.   I am a YAC Junior Chair. It is our privilege to introduce our inspirational speaker, Casady Service-Learning Program and YAC benefactor, Mr. H.E. (Gene) Rainbolt

Aubrey
Mr. Rainbolt graduated from Norman high School in 1947.  He received degrees in Economics and Finance from the University of Oklahoma before graduating from the Graduate School of Banking from the University of Wisconsin. 

Dylan
Mr. Rainbolt received the Bronze Start and Army Commendation medal during the Korean War.  He returned to Oklahoma where he became the President and CEO of the Federal National Bank of Shawnee in 1967.  He was also President of the Oklahoma Banking Association and formed the first multibank holding company before organizing BancFirst Corporation in 1989.

Aubrey
In 2004, Mr. Rainbolt was named Oklahoma City/County Historical Path Maker.  In 2006, he was selected as one of the 50 most powerful Oklahomans.

Dylan
Mr. Rainbolt PERSONAFIES THE OKLAHOMA STANDARD WHEN HE STATED, “My mission in life is to create an Oklahoma in which every child would have the opportunity to become all she or he could become. “
Please help US welcome Mr. Gene Rainbolt,

AWARD CEREMONY

Jessica
Thank you Mr. Rainbolt for your inspirational words.  My name is Jessica Greene and I am a YAC Co-President.  I will be facilitating the delivery of the President Volunteer Service Awards with Aubrey, Dylan, and YAC Freshman Chairs Sara and Gabrielle.  Thank you to Mrs. Clay, Father Blizzard, Miss Infantino, Dr. Jon Powell and Mr. Rainbolt for assisting with the delivery of the awards.

The President Volunteer Service Award is an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service and is administered by the Points of Light Foundation.   With a shared mission of inspiring more to answer the call to service, the award celebrates the impact we can all make in bettering our communities and our world.

Aubrey                                                                                      
The President’s Volunteer Service Award recognizes United States citizens and lawfully admitted, permanent residents who have achieved a required number of hours of service over a 12-month time period.                                                                                              
Even though volunteers may not seek recognition, their example can deliver a powerful message that encourages others to take action.

Dylan                                                                                             
Awardees receive a medal, a letter from the President of the United States, Barrack Obama and a certificate of achievement.

Jessica                                                                                         
Awardees, when your name is called, please walk to receive your medal Remain standing until all names are called and 3 group pictures are taken. 

Dylan                                                                                                 
After chapel, your certificates and a small token of YAC’s appreciation for your commitment to making a difference and finding your passion to serve await for you at the Casady Wing.  We ask the audience to kindly refrain from applause until all names are called.

Award winners your name will be called in alphabetical order by first name.



Bronze
Hours criteria

Teens 11-15:  years old
50-74  hours

Young Adults 16-25:  years old ,  100-174 hours

Jessica
Silver
Hours Criteria

Teens: 11-15 years old
75-99 hours

Young Adults: 16:25 years old , 175-249 hours

Aubrey
Gold
Hours Criteria

Teens: 11-15 years old
100+ hours

Young Adults: 16:25 years old,  250+  hours

Dylan
1.        Camillo Haller
1.        Ann Joullian
1. Ananya Bhaktaram
2.        Carl Albert
2. Casey Denny
2. Aubrey Hermen
3.        Caroline Silver
3. Chris Foster
3. Caroline Moock
4.        Catherine Zesiger
4. Dylan Dobson
4. Chloe Richards
5.        Claire Darrow
5. Jessica Greene
5. Mallory Woodruff
6.        Emory Hood
6. Jonathan Lee
6. Olivia Sprankle
7.        Grace Griffin
7. Kaitlyn Barthell
7. Sindi Peza
8.        Grace Patton
8. Kate Ellis
8. Taylor Burrow  

9.        Grace Pitman
9. Mariam Shakir

Shout out to Taylor, 1000 + service hours

10.     John Lindstrom
10. Megan Trachtenberg
Service hours certified.
11.     Justin Schneider
11. Safra Shakir
1st  in requirement  history
12.     Maren Cottrell
12. Shaan Patel

13.     Mary Puls
13. Sydney Gibson

14.     Michael Johnson
14. Yijing (Barry) Zhang

15.     Miranda Tortorici


16.     Natalie Hugos


17.     Neeley Russell


18.     Nurmeen Jawaid


19.     Pierce Sapper


20.     Rachel King


21.     Sarah Covington


22.     Sidney Jones


23.     Sharun Philip


24.     Turner Waddell


25.      John George



Group pictures taken

Mrs. Clay

PLEASE HELP ME CONGRATULATE THE 2015 PRESIDENT VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD WINNERS WITH A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 

Congratulations. AWARDEES FOR ADVOCATING THE OKLAHOMA STANDARD WITH YOUR ACTIONS. 

A reception follows this award ceremony at the Wing where your certificate and a small token of YAC’s appreciation for your service awaits for you.

This concludes the 2015 President Volunteer Service award ceremony,  Thank you.

RECEPTION AT THE WING DURING YAC MEETING B BLOG



YAC and UD faculty Projects  YLOKC, Walk-A-Thon-, Dig Pink,
Literary Exchange, Mrs. Finley's Service-Learning Project in English Curriculum

Mrs. Finley with Mr. Rainbolt

Bronze Awards

Casady Peace Week 2015- Project Planning begins next week
with assistance from Mrs. Morgan, Peace Education teacher
Labyrinth Walks will be feature at Casady  in portable Labyrinth


Fair Trade Chocolate Project- 3rd grade Service-Learning Project





-Award recipients came and got their goodie bags, PVSA certificates and letters from President Obama.  Photographer and host: Tara R.  Congratulations PSVA winners for personifying the Oklahoma Standard with your actions.  

Goal and Silver Awards
Shout out to Taylor Burrow, 1,000+ hours of service while in high school

Bronze Awards
Special thanks to  Aubrey, Dylan, Jessica, Sara ,Gabrielle and Tara for facilitating the awards.  Many thanks to our inspirational speaker Mr. Rainbolt,  and Father Blizzard, Father Youmans, Miss Infantino, Dr. Powell and Mr. Rainbolt for delivering the medals.  special thanks to Sidney Jones, YAC Co-President for deciding that the YAC agenda for the day was the reception and conversation with Mr. Rainbolt and communication of agenda items needed to be done via e-mail and text.



-Cookies and punch by Sage courtesy of the  Service Learning. Program.  Thank you to the YAC members who stayed to share your projects with Mr. Rainbolt.  Mr. Rainbolt took the Marolyn book by Ananya and a book from Mrs. Finley's Literary Exchange project to read with him.